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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Logan Kilpatrick

Nov 23 '22

Here’s why quantum computing could be the big break for the Julia Language

#julialang #quantum #programming #opensource

4 min read

TD

Nov 25 '22

Adding Tests for ESM using Jest framework

#opensource #tutorial #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Giuliano Bellini

Nov 23 '22

Comfortably monitor your internet traffic with Sniffnet

#rust #github #opensource #analytics

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 25 '22

AWS open source newsletter, #137 (Edición en español)

#opensource #github

33 min read

CDPhu

Nov 26 '22

Software Release Via NPM

#opensource #npm #programming #javascript

2 min read

Deepak Prabhakara

Nov 14 '22

The impact of open source on cybersecurity

#discuss #cybersecurity #security #opensource

1 min read

Alexandre Plennevaux

Nov 25 '22

How to use Redis with WordPress (docker-compose)

#opensource

1 min read

Sangam SwadiK for Data Umbrella

Nov 25 '22

Tutorial on Intro to Rust Programming

#rust #tutorial #opensource #python

3 min read

Nov 25 '22

4 Important Rules of Semantic Versioning

#programming #opensource #webdev #productivity

4 min read

Pramit Marattha for Aviyel Inc

Nov 24 '22

Supercharging community⚡with Aviyel : A Step-by-Step Guide

#community #beginners #saas #opensource

19 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 24 '22

Django Soft Design - Free PyPi Library

#webdev #django #softdesign #opensource

2 min read

Nov 9 '22

I made 1200+ ⭐️ stars on a Github repo! Here are some simple tips that helped me!

#webdev #tutorial #react #opensource

3 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 23 '22

Django Material Kit - Free PyPi Library

#webdev #django #materialdesign #opensource

2 min read

Jan Schenk (he/him) for Postman

Nov 24 '22

How Postman's Building Their Open Source Program Office (OSPO)

#showdev #opensource #api #postman

4 min read

cychu42

Nov 3 '22

Static Analysis Tooling

#javascript #beginners #opensource #too

3 min read

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